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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX,
DURING MARCH, 1857,
by
THOMAS HILLIER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for the Parish of Saint Pancras.
April 3rd, 1857.] [No. 12.
TO THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen—
The total number of deaths registered in this Parish during the four weeks
that ended on the 28th March last was 351.
The average for the corresponding period of ten preceding years, corrected
for increase of population, is 356; so that the present return of mortality is a
very little below the average.
There have been 152 deaths under the age of 5 years, and 17 above the
age of 80; one of these list at the age of 94.
Diseases of the zymotic class have been fatal to 62 persons; amongst these
there were 12 cases of measles, 9 of scarlatina, 11 of hooping cough, 6 of
diarrhoea, 9 of low fever, 3 of erysipelas, and 2 of small pox in children not
vaccinated. There have been 62 deaths from tubercular disease, and 42 from
affections of the nervous system. Diseases of the respiratory organs were fatal
in 79 cases, of which 31 were of children under 5, and 24 of persons over 60
years of age.
WORKHOUSE.
There have been 37 deaths here. Three of these were from measles, and
2 from hooping cough.
The average number of inmates during the month has been 1469. This
number includes the casual applicants for relief, who are, under the new system,
entered on the books and counted as inmates, whereas, until the new wards
were open, there was no regular return of these given.
Temperature.—The highest temperature registered at Greenwich during
the month was 66.2° on the 18th, and the lowest 27.7° on the 22nd. There
have been 14 days above and 14 days below the average temperature. The
greatest diurnal range was 22.7° (from 32-3° to 55°) on the 1st of the month.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS HILLIER, M.D., L.R.C.P.
21, Upper Gowee Street.